Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a [noun] whose " in BNC.

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1 I am a southerner whose first job was in Leeds , whose second job was in Edinburgh and whose third job was in London .
2 The nave arcade has tall pointed arches above which is a gallery whose columns support aisle and nave vault ( 531 ) .
3 an ’ emulator ’ , which is a program whose inputs are a representation of a current state of the truck and the output of the logical neural net .
4 Blind Io took up the dice-box , which was a skull whose various orifices had been stoppered with rubies , and with several of his eyes on the Lady he rolled three fives .
5 She is a woman whose ring is often kissed .
6 Particularly as we are a company whose sales as you know is split roughly a third a third a third er that is a third in the U K , a third in North America and a third in the rest of the world .
7 One was a siltstone whose provenance is given as south-west England , and the other a tuff , of Wales or Cumbria .
8 In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant .
9 In each of these cases there is a disposition whose content is not made clear by the words in the will , and the question for the jurist is whether that means the disposition is void or that it ought somehow to be supplemented .
10 On the same page of Who 's Who as Martin Fleischmann 's entry there is a barrister whose recreations include ‘ coping with multiple sclerosis ’ , a surgeon who enjoys ‘ history , literature , art and indulging the senses ’ and an energetic biochemist keen on ‘ tennis , squash , sailing ’ .
11 It 's a subject whose passion for diagrams and abbreviations and formulae can give nuclear physics a run for its money .
12 The difference is with Body of Evidence is it 's Madonna whose in , it 's a woman whose in control .
13 It 's a woman whose using a man .
14 This is the " fire which consumes everything that is dark " ( Fire of Love , prologue , p.47 ) ; at this stage of the treatise it is a metaphor whose full implications have not been developed , but it is the goal of this form of living .
15 It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia .
16 It is a diagnosis whose burden is that the supposedly mistaken analysis , of a kind which has persisted through centuries , is owed not to good reason but to a kind of desire .
17 And it is a claim whose force in this instance comes through a demystification generated across inversion .
18 It is a job whose profile has been suddenly heightened by the advent on television of Heartbeat , an adaptation of the Constable books written by the North Yorkshire author and former policeman , Peter Walker alias Nicholas Rhea .
19 It is a theory whose plausibility and aesthetic attractiveness in England was considerable at a time ( the later 1970s ) when the English choral tradition was flourishing and when many sensed the need for a change of direction after the loss of David Munrow ; by a kind of happy accident it has proved to be consistent with a much wider range of evidence than was initially suspected .
20 Conceived as a challenge for VW 's increasingly active motorsport division , it is a car whose sum is even greater than its parts .
21 He is a man whose emotions are close to the surface , and who plunges into profound troughs .
22 He is a man whose life has been defined by racing big-time wheel-to-wheel every other Sunday since 1978 .
23 ‘ Steve Entwistle speaks very highly of you as well , and he 's a man whose opinion I respect a lot .
24 It was a movement whose history went back into the Second World War , into the New York clubs that had bred Charlie Parker , Dizzy Gillespie , and the new jazz of be-bop .
25 It was a fleet whose like had never been seen before , vast hulks of crudely fashioned wood propelled by massive tread wheels and gigantic sails .
26 It was a situation whose benefits went largely to the richer tenant-farmers and the landowners rather than to the ordinary yeoman or labourer .
27 He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes .
28 He was a man whose frightening appearance commanded instant respect .
29 He was a man whose sexual energies had been forced inwards through his crippling disease , and had taken the form of mental passion which found relief in meticulous scholarship and mild prurience .
30 All she had learned was that he was a man whose wife thought him the apple of her eye and who had tastes in Italian painting that were remarkably similar to her own .
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